Cyclopaedia of Commercial and Business Anecdotes; Containing Interesting Reminiscences and Facts .

2 vol. 8vo. [5], vi-xxviii, [3], 2-387, [3]; [3], iv-xii, [3], 392-779, [3] pp. Half contemporary green pebbled sheep over marbled paper boards, spines in six compartments with gold lettering and decorations on the spines; all edges marbled. Marbled endpapers and pastedowns. Illustrated with a frontispiece in each volume, and with wood engravings and woodcuts, illustrations in-text and on plates (all in black and white). Completing the title page: "Remarkable traits and humors, and notable sayings, dealings, experiences, and witticisms of merchants, traders, bankers, mercantile celebrities, millionnaires, bargain makers, etc., etc. in all ages and countries. Designed to exhibit by nearly three thousand illustrative anecdotes and incidents, the piquancies and pleasantries of trade, commerce, and general business pursuits." With stories from the Astors, Rothschilds, Vanderbilts, the De Medici family, and several others. Rubbing to the boards' edges, an odor of tobacco to the leaves.